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Startups 2.0: The Nigerian Story

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Overview<br />The first dot-com registered company was Symbolics in 1985.<br />The dot-com boom started in the 90’s and Amazon was launched by Jeff Bezos in 1995.<br /> Nigerian-born ChineduEcheruo founded HopStop.com in 2005.<br />OnePage was launched by OsitaNwoyeand Joel Gascoigne in 2010.<br />

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Futureview<br />What will be the next big thing on the web?<br />Will you be the next youngest internet entrepreneur?<br />When will you launch your own internet company? 2015? 2020? 2030?<br />

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The Way Forward?<br />Provide early stage investments as a community of smaller investors.<br />Build technology incubators across several states.<br />Integrate latest web-related courses and degree programmes in the University’s curricula.<br />Set-up a Start-up University for techno-entrepreneurs<br />Reverse the brain-drain. Join the Renaissance for technology innovations.<br />